Definition of "bucket" []

• A cylindrical vessel used for holding or carrying liquids or solids; a pail. (noun)
• The amount that a bucket can hold: One bucket of paint will be enough for the ceiling. (noun)
• A unit of dry measure in the U.S. Customary System equal to 2 pecks (17.6 liters). See Table at measurement. (noun)
• A receptacle on various machines, such as the scoop of a power shovel or the compartments on a water wheel, used to gather and convey material. (noun)
• Basketball A basket. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Upload the bundle to a bucket on S3: ec2-upload-bundle \ - b $bucket \ - m/mnt/$prefix. manifest.xml \ - a $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID \ - s"
• "The bonuses are a drop in the bucket, but the bucket is as big as the country and it will never be filled."
• "Invariably, the other goats who want to get back to the grain bucket try to storm their way in."